Profile

I am an academic researcher and the Director of Leeds Psychometric Laboratory for Health Sciences, which is one of Europe’s leading psychometric laboratories. I have over ten years of applied health research experience, focusing on psychometrics and Rasch analysis. I am the primary instructor on a range of world-renowned Rasch analysis courses, and I am also part of a broad, international multidisciplinary collaborative network which looks to shape methodological advances in patient reported outcome measures.

As Director, I provide strategic leadership and oversight for the activities of the Psychometric Laboratory, including course planning and the scientific development of the analytic procedures. As Course Leader, I have been responsible for teaching >400 students from across all five populated continents of the world.

I completed my PhD in 2018, which focussed on psychometrics and risk prediction methodologies, specifically applied to predicting the risk of self-harm in adult prison settings.

Responsibilities

Director, Leeds Psychometric Laboratory for Health Sciences

Course Leader, Rasch Teaching Centre

Research interests

My research interests focus around measurement science and psychometrics, more specifically, implementing Rasch Measurement Theory to create measures of latent constructs. I have been involved in projects looking to develop scales for concepts such as Quality of Life and Work Instability, and I have also worked on projects assessing the quality of undergraduate medical examinations, along with assessing the scaling characteristics of various pre-existing scales that are used in the healthcare domain. The application of Rasch analytic techniques provides a basis for scale development and validation, cross-cultural/diagnostic adaptation, item banking, computer adaptive testing and path analysis. I have delivered taught content across all of these areas, which also broadly represent my research interests.